Anubias sp. 'Congensis Mini'

About this plant

Congensis Mini is a documented small-growing Anubias trade form with smooth, elongated foliage. It provides a more upright leaf line than round-leaved nana forms. It is not simply a small pot of an unspecified large Congensis plant. The name congensis is used inconsistently in the aquarium trade and cannot by itself establish afzelii or heterophylla identity. This profile therefore retains Anubias sp. with the complete culture designation. Use a loose group on wood in the foreground or lower midground, leaving room for the rhizome to advance. Attach the rhizome to wood or stone without covering its growing stem. Roots may enter the substrate, but a buried rhizome can decay. Keep the slow-growing leaves free of debris, provide balanced water-column nutrition and avoid abrupt changes made only to chase a colour. Trim damaged leaves at their base. Divide an established rhizome into healthy leaf-bearing sections; emersed-grown stock can replace some leaves after submersion. Care ranges, where supplied, describe reported cultivation conditions rather than measured lethal limits. Width and nutrient concentrations are left unspecified where no defensible form-specific values are available.